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On March 1, 2007, Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest (BLSPI) raised over $35,000 in their 17th Annual BLSPI Auction. In celebration of this year’s auction theme, participants dressed up in their finest pirate gear and competed for prizes offered up for bid by a professional auctioneer. Dean Joan G. Wexler started the evening off not with a bid, but with a generous donation that will fund two BLSPI summer fellowships. Items for the auction were donated by Law School faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends of the school, and local business. Bidding was strong for all of the items, but some of the fiercest bidding was for a "Fajitas and Margaritas" party with Professors Janger, Cahill and Serkin, for a dinner with the “Tres Geraldos,” Gerald Shargel, Gerald Lefcourt, and Geraldo Rivera, and for swimming lessons with BLS alumna and two-time Olympic swimmer Nikki Dryden. Bar/Bri certificates and tickets to the opera, ballet and other cultural events went quickly for high bids. The proceeds from BLSPI's annual auction go towards funding summer fellowships for students to work in public interest organizations. Past fellows have worked at such organizations as Amnesty International, the Brennan Center, the Legal Aid Society, and the Urban Justice Center.
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